Sapiens Summary (Animated) — The Definitive History of Humankind & How Humans Became the #1 Species

This is a summary of the book Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari.
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0:00 - Introduction
1:21 - Top 3 Lessons
1:52 - Lesson 1: The ability to think gave early humans language, which eventually led to agricultural advances allowing them to grow exponentially.
3:26 - Lesson 2: Improvements in trade were only possible with the invention of money and writing.
5:16 - Lesson 3: With better economic and communication means, scientific progress gave our race the abilities necessary to get to where we are today.

In Sapiens, Dr. Yuval Noah Harari spans the whole of human history, from the very first humans to walk the earth to the radical -- and sometimes devastating -- breakthroughs of the Cognitive, Agricultural, and Scientific Revolutions.

Drawing on insights from biology, anthropology, palaeontology, and economics, he explores how the currents of history have shaped our human societies, the animals and plants around us, and even our personalities. Have we become happier as history has unfolded? Can we ever free our behaviour from the heritage of our ancestors? And what, if anything, can we do to influence the course of the centuries to come?

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